englischWe encounter tricksters’ grins in myths, legends and other fictional or historical narratives. They populate liminal spaces and thus do not only transgress binary boundaries. As confusion and provocation of the familiar, tricksters enable us to pause for a moment, and they offer new [...]
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englischSince the 1960s, it has been recognised that Christian anthropocentrism has contributed significantly to current environmental destruction and the exploitation of animals. This study is the first to reconstruct the beginnings of this development. This shows that although many theologians of [...]
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englischThe prohibition of alcohol is one of the defining characteristics of Islamic religious practice. In 2012, the Egyptian legal scholar Saʿduddīn al-Hilālī reopened the discourse on the question of the permissibility of alcohol consumption in Islam, referring to well-known Iraqi legal scholars [...]
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englischIn this book, the author tries to oppose the ‘methodologically pluralistic’ interpretation of Aristotle's philosophy, focusing on exactness (ἀκρίβεια) as a key term that demonstrates a consistent methodological concept as well as the unified systematics of Aristotle's theoria. The author [...]
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englischWith the outbreak of the Sars-CoV-2 epidemic in 2020, the provisions of Section 128a of the Code of Civil Procedure came into focus. Since 2002, this provision has allowed oral hearings to be held by means of video and audio transmission. The author examines whether § 128a ZPO can guarantee [...]
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englischThe conference proceedings for the second edition of the Gender & Crime conference encompass texts addressing gender aspects in criminology and criminal law, discussing forms, manifestations, and consequences of violence against women. With the overarching theme of "Sexual Self-Determination [...]
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Das passgenaue Handbuch für die SozialrechtsberatungFür alle Lebenslagen, die in der Beratungspraxis typischerweise vorkommen, erläutert das HSRB, welche Leistungen den Betroffenen zustehen, wer zuständig ist und wie es um die Durchsetzung bestellt ist. Das beigefügte Plakat „Sozialleistungen im [...]
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englischThis book not only offers valuable ethnomusicological insights into the ritual music of the Tibetan Yungdrung Bön tradition. At the same time, it is an extraordinary case study in which Christiane Strothmann captivatingly describes her many years of collaboration with the Tibetan monastic [...]
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englischThis work shows how historically and legally inequality between blacks and whites has grown in Germany and explores the question of what requirements constitutional law, legal practice and politics must fulfill in order to balance it out.
It begins by outlining the development of the [...]
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englischESG swiftly transitioned from a financial niche to a topic of public discourse, but recent disillusionment has challenged its transformative potential for developing sustainable societies.
This thesis seeks to recalibrate ESG in terms of its effectiveness over its efficiency. Exploring [...]
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